The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 31, 1917, Page 1

ry Is to Buy a Liberty Bond The Seattle Star |," = fs ;| NIGHT EDITION Mr. Citizen, Your First Patriotic Duty to Your Count sasasrsnsesasesssenesstsgestssartsasistaasesets gress ‘JOIN THE ARMY Seattle women recruits in the Army Againat Waste Men under 21 years of age don't have to register for select service Tuesday. But they can join the Second infantry. Weather report: “Partly cloudy tonight and Friday.” are learning important lessons that will aid them in GREA TEST DAILY CIRCULATION OF ANY NEWSPAPER IN PACIFIC NORTHWEST their kitchen campaign against Hohenzollernism, Ren KVERYWHEne VOLUME 19 SEATTLE, WASH., THURSDAY, MAY 31, 1917. ONE CENT IN SKATTLS DRAFT ARRESTS GROW! -LETS HAVE A LITTLE TEAM WORK! Three tha THE QU ICKES TORNADO KILLS “SCORE; INJURES 100 IN MISSOURI Pree Leased Wire ir LOUuIs, May 31.—At feast persons are dead, nearly a Gases injured and damage estimated at as the result of a tor. nade, which swept thru the fead belt just southwest of St. Louis late last night. Reports from Cape Girardeau to oe Press over long-distance tet @ today indicated that the tor: ado fan thru a dozen towns in southeastern Missouri and | Minois. Reports reaching St. Louis owe badly crippled communication | Imes showed that Mineral Point,, 65 miles from here, hit.. Seven persons were killed in the town and three at Palmer, « toile distant. Forty-five were jured at Mineral Point and erty damage is estimated at more than $250,000. Two hundred per- sons are homelese Four are reported dead at Gran- itevifle and two at Bismarck. Sev- eral are reported dead at Bon} Terre and Marquard, but all con Tounication to these points ts cut eff. The swister also swept Salem, Annutthouse, Lennox, Maples, Licking, Edgar Springs and Etlah, causing fatalities, but no word ts) available from those towns. ADVERTISING MANAGER'S DAILY TALK OPPORTUNITY May kno way through vertisement. Tod the ads in The e that at your door the big | medium of an ad- for instance, n contain n a sad ar will Standard Furniture Co Bartell Drug Grote-Rankin Liberty Theatre Woodhouse-Grunbaumn The Rhodes Co Bargain Frida McCormack Brow Puget Mill Co., telling of a new proposition for thone who desire country home. Read about it on Movie News anc Vraser-Paterson von Marche derick & Nelson Page Stores Page 6! 6 special Page Page Page Page Pag ads Co 1 12 THE FASTEST GROWING PAPER IN THE NORTHWEST was hardest | in-| prop-| r WAY TO FINIS H THE KAISER ‘DR: MILLIS WILL SPEAK ON LOAN AT THE ORPHEUM Mohawk | @——-———_ RETURNS “stow to date has only 7,500 to Uncle Sam in exchange for Iiberty Loan bonds, which pay 3% per cent interest, acoOrding to fig ures issued by the Clearing House esnociation Tharsday Her apportionment is $8,000. 000 to be subscribed by 15! — SEATTLE Seattle loaned $2,227, June | | a Memorial day paraders, and ttle people who w on the streets to watch the cere- monies, accepte: more than 2,000 subscription blanks for the Liberty Loan bonds. it is expected that the majority of these will lend their financial Support to Uncle Sam by sub- scribing to the patriotic fund, for which Seattle is in honor bound to raise $8,000,000 on her apportionment. Gatherings were held Wednesday after. square and at | | which Edgar C. Snyder spoke on the mobilization of the na- tion's wealth. Rev, Newell Dwight Hillis, pas tor of Plymouth church, Brooklyn, :. Y., will speak at the Orpheum tieatre Saturday, bringing # mes sage of patriotism, urging public spport for the government's Lib: erty bond issue. Not only the Liberty America’s position in the war and elect service will be discussed by Dr, Hillis at the meeting, which begins at 20 p.m. Admission free Loan, but 1 Hillis is touring the country vnder the auspices of the Liberty Loan committee, acting for the secretary of the treasury. He is lone of the ablest orators in the country, and was heard In Seattle few years ago on a private lec ture tour, at which time he spoke | at the Dreamland pavilion Dr, Hillis will be accompanied by Lawrence Chamberlain, an au thority on the subject of bonds, {His book, “The Principles of Bond Investment,” is cailed “the bond man's Fible.’ Dr. Mark A, Matthews will pre in his possession|side at the meeting the body was! Sunday hes been set aside by i President Wilson as the day on hich clergymen thruout the coun try will speak to their congrega tions on the subject of the “Lib erty Loan.” A copy of one of Dr. | Hillis’ patriotic sermons has been |went to every pastor in the city jamie Dropped on Roof; Pupil Killed, as Airplane Burns} TORONTO, Oni., May 31. vit be | Frater of Winn Canadian ation cadet, was killed and Lust | Vernon Castle, dancer and aviation instructor, miraculously escaped | serious injury at the Royal Flying/ | corps’ training ground, Camp, it became known today. | Castle and bis pupil were just as | cending for flight, when something } went wrong with the engine and; |there was an explosion. The ma | chine smashed into a buliding and | Castle was thrown oat onto the roof, The cadet was burned to, death in the aeroplane. Castle is not badly hurt. Jitney bus drivers Thursday ex pected to be served with tempor ary restraining ordera preventing their operation and were prepared to transform their machines into “donation cars,” 25 of which al- Teady are running in Seattle Attorney Howe for the Traction 1Co., at whore instigation the orders |were issued by Judge Smith, has ennounced his intention to name |from 60 to 80 more as defendants {in the case brought by the Trac tion Co. to drive them from the streets | Howe says no move is planned to} check the operation of the “dona |tion busses” at this time. ‘VILLISTAS COMING | CLOSER TO BORDER SAN ANTONIO, Tex., May 21.— That a band of Villistas is approach ing the international border is the) word received at Southern depart-! ment headquarters today. A mes sage from the Mexican consul at} Presidio stated there was “nothing to fear trom their activities,” since the Southern department has enough troops along the border to} protect American towns | HE DIED NATURALLY After a post-mortem examination Thursday, deputy coroners declared | James Viahos, 40, Greek barber) found dead Wednesday morning at 218 Fourth ave. died a natural jdeath, resulting from heart trouble. Friends suspected that he had met | foul play, bec belleved he ha was missing when found Stop Buying Permits Business dropped off abruptly at the county liquor permit counter hursday Consumers evidently figured out that the dry*law would endanger Alonzo Helms, colored, is in jail them if they started ordering now.| Thursday, charged with white slay. Business up until today had been jery, following information furnished Ureaking all records, by his wife, Kila Helms. By the Editor of The Star NTRAL LABO} NCIL sed resolutions declaring " ttl HI night cl Se la congress law COL of that should be petitioned to repeal the To forcible federal pas select service advocate resistance select ided, service service vuthe to writies denoun the sedition, 4 the ising of dem rotest vd minis and it operation, say unized labor critics but merely the exert free tration, is no ative ocracy’ Is In only he women and te prer spec the arm oft the f \ the chief time ar presider not and may 100,000.00 commander-in-chief the con children make hut i mander-it f the ) men als who compose the nation fally preparation t o rt and hief war su 16 that one mize authority pe we erfully And power ance every mer ander-in- loyally the wer our not but a it and cept ha rccepted thi hority t f one of us to vith ov and man uty of every the of rein e whether our wal or obey ande ch they mit meet r not appre When a democracy, thru its representa- tives in congress, has declared war, the very first sacrifice it must make for the period of the war is its democracy. If it is unwilling to do this then it should not de- clare war, for war is the antithesis of democracy. ‘They will no more mix than oi! and water will We believe that the idea of political liberty—that it is the inalienable right of human beings to govern them- selves, which is the essence of democracy—is the most i idea that ever originated in the brain of man. We believe that nothing® has dont so ghuch for the progress and uplift of the human race; t the whole future of mankind depends upon th servation of democracy wherever it exist# AND T SUBSTITU TION OF DEMOCRACY FOR AUTOCACY WITER- EVER AUTOCRACY EXISTS World-wide democracy means the end the very simple reason that the ideal of democracy is mix of wars fe final analysis NATIONS IDEALS the War in ALL THE SAMI PEACT the fundamental should at instead tem, which has always proven a failure “IT IS NOT AN ARMY THAT SHAPE AND TRAIN FOR WAR; IT IS the ident ha ! peace WHI HAM WORLD One of PHI the president’s war $ tl it we once raise an army selective upon by or of depending the volunteer WE MUST A NATION,” cing hole logic se the und purpose of select service June 5 the for re imed nf da gis up re has " Continuing, he fo this end our people must draw close in one compact front against a common foe. BUT THIS CANNOT BE IF EACH PURSUES A PRIVATE PURPOSE.” president sees clearly th he v for select service 1 sittat most admirably € f every unit Private The t the energies ake the common nfliet conflict American must to na ene shaped ainst autocrac against object r with national Pr effect t with ns and « c tional € ivate w must our na eness in thing ination to war er has got te in the face of our give for be whicl way world liberty team in which each best fitted,” this nabon mu shall play the part president tells ws He is right. Team play ts what we must have. We don't want any backstops trying to play centerfield, or any pitchers loafing on the bench when they're needed on the mound. We want team play. Team oY is the real. Americana But there is’ this it that must be under, Team play is. works together play is never of the team tries to run the team. wit war t The whole a man the Speakers Against BY CARL D. GROAT United. Preae Statt Correapende * WASHINGTON, May 41 rmany's secret have a hand {n antl-registration plottings Federal agents, running down these plots, were convinced of this today, altho they believed that the movement is not sufficiently cen | tralized to make it a tremendous menace, Everything ts being done to crash out the plots and to punish the plotters. The latest developments are in the open mass meetings addres by L W. W's, anarchists and kindred spirits Their efforts may } based on conscientious objection to registration and draft, but, what motives are, the department of justice has ordered that preach anti-registration shall be herded in just as strenu heir tracks and spread their Arrest al helpers be lever their | speakers who ously as those who use the mails to hide th doctrines From now on until Tuesday, every | hotbed of anti-registration will be watched by ine rv The department feels that early summary fear of the law upon many of the plotters, and that as a result the danger has been nearly checked. What registration day itself will bring is a matter that gives some trouble, inasmuch as anti-draft riots | may be staged in some quarters of the big cities “ANNOUNCE 50,000 WILL DEFY meeting that is likely federal agents, who are action has stamped the rect to The Stor A secret as Leased W 31 and anti them By United NEW YORK, May slackers H.C, OF MEAT IS census of bon seriptionists who encourage and elsewhere | teday thruout the U 8 ment nts. Emma Goldman and her fellow-anarchists, Louis Loch: | ner’s peace term-pacifist conven tion, the newly organized American | Union Against Militarism, and oth.) persons and anti-conseription | were put under ret was started here by govern: | er orders wateh Stenographic ments and speeches onthfighters here and are being taken Emma Goldman's — no-conserip: tion league announced today that 10,000 New York boys will refuse to. register June 6 and that branches of the league are being organized in. other cities which expect by to have a membership of 60, The American i By United Prees Leased Wire CHICAGO, May 31.—Witnout any organized effort on their part, Mr. Mrs, Consumer are swatting high cost of meat reports of state among the elsewhere and the been no systematic boycott, accord ing to packers’ representatives, but the recent record prices have caus ed the great majority of people in the country to cut down on their meat consumption, while many ar abstaining entirely Sheep today were $1 to $2.50 a hundred pounds under the prices of a week ago, With the greatest re duction in spring lambs, Western isheepare selling at $13.40, Western lambs at $15.50, at $18. Hoge were generally tthe bulk of the market $15.35 to $15.86 atthe were an average of cents lower, beeves selling at $9.20 to $19.70 and calves at $9.50 to Union Against Militariam opened offices on Fifth ave, Roger N, Baldwin, secretary, announced thet the union's pur pose is “to give legal aid to the 116,000 youths who have told us} |they have conscientious scruples | against military service and to urge the war department to make} provision for their exemption Among the active onizers of | this union are L, Hollingsworth | Wood of the Society of Friends; Kev. John Haynes Holmes, Rev Norman M, Thomas, Prof. Harry | Ward of Boston, Scott Nearing of Yoledo and Edmond C, Evans, $1 selling at -- a O ~ Money makes the war go. | | | Have you bought your bond? 4 ———_—_——_—_ DRAFT; SLACKER CENSUS IS ON composed of Sheriff Stringer, in America| to be a! icted to arrest any one who tries to thwart the registration plans. | | where ‘FORCED DOWN BY SHORTER RATION There has|manent board for the county [from the immigration department, and spring lambs | lower, , WILL CHECK RIOTS 100 AUTOS WILL LABOR COUNCIL Reviatn’ BE READY TO AD AGAIN DECLA AGAINST DR Acting on the suggestion of the Green Lake Carpenters’ union, the Central Labor Coun- cil Wednesday night reaffirmed Its opposition to select service, and went on record in favor of petitioning congress to repeal the act. Hulet M. Wells, free on bond, leharged with inciting sedition and lconspiring to resist the authority jof the government, spoke in sup- ‘port of the resolution, He was greeted with deafening applause. Whoa Frank Gates arose to speak in favor of select service, he was unable for several minutes to gain a chance to be heard. ‘That's right,” said Gates, “you how! about free speech, but you only want to hear from those who REGISTRATION More than 100 privately owned Seattle automobiles will be held in readiness June 5 to in registration, and, if rioting or disorder should oc. cur at registration places, to carry police and deputy sher- iffg to the scene. H. W. Treat, a chairman of the Automobile serve corps, h notifie Lieut. Gov, Hart that any rs quests made by the registration officers would be respected as commands. Mayor Gill formally accepted the offer of machines Thursday, They ill be used in carrying interpret ers from precinct to precinct and taking officers to outlying pre cinets, Some may be used in the county to rush registration results from remote districts to Seattle, they will be tabulated for|think as you do.” immediate telégraphic transmittal| The resolutions were adopted to the governor and by him to the | after Secretary James Duncan and war department others had spoken in favor of them. The Only a few votes were cast in op- position It is expected that the question of the council's supporting Wells and Sam Sadler, who are jointly accused of distributing anti-select service handbills, will come before the council at its next meeting. If it does, leaders of both factions de- clare the labor men will be split into two parties Federal agents along the Coast Thursday were searching for agents of the Seattle branch of the “No Conscription. League Pam- phiets printed by the organization have been distributed in cities on the} and thetr agents have paint-| ed signs advocating resistance to} select service on sidewalks and sign boards thruout the Pacific stares Revelle, of Oak P; @ board Aud Health Officer county registration itor Wardall and Clear Up Questions You'll find select service queries and answers on page 6 today If there is some phase of nelect ervice registration you don’t understand, perhaps you'll find it cleared up there, Mail questions to “Select Service Ed itor” of The Star. morning rec Lister the men | second per Sparling, Thursday <cmmended to Gov vho will compose the Thomas P. Lake, a lawyer, will act as execu tive officer; A. ¢ Wilson, a real cetate dealer of Renton, will be the order and Dr, W, E. Gibson, of aquah, physician Permission to register 600 to 800 Japanese at place by means of an or Quits Place When Flag Goes Up WORCESTER, M May 31.— The Rev, Charles E, Beals, pastor of the Chureh of the Unity, Unitar ian, resigned because his. parish foners insisted on raising an Amer lean flag over the choir loft. Altho an ex-militiaman and military chaplain, he is an ardent and pron? }inent pacifist ttle’s | a central | interpreter was received -by» Mayor Gill Lieut, Gov, Hart Thursday Only after the selection has been made and the names of those who are to serve chosen by lot will claims for exemp- tion from select service be heard by the permanent regis- tration district boards, This is the statement of the provost marshal in instructions now in the hands of Seattle officials. Five hundred thousand are to be drawn for service in the first cath |f READ STAR WANT ADS" thru A. F, Haines has been appointed} delegate to the committee of 15 of the Associated Chambers of Com- merce of the Pacific coast, to repre: | sent.the local body, by President A.| J. Rhodes (Continued on page 12) |The meeting pledged the | port of the government Taken inN YY. Reported Jailed Chicago, One in Ohio Six as department of justie continued their rounds up of anti-conscriptionists, Owen Cattell, a Colum | university student and son | Prof. McKay Cattell of lumbia; Chas. Francis lips, also a student, and nor Wilson Parker were custody by governm agents | While the roundup of these \conseriptionists was in pro speakers at the meeting of the American Congress for Det jand terms of peace were bitterty 4 |nouncing the select se “The conscription act is toral and unconstitutional,” ed Daniel Kiefer, prominent ] Cinnats single taxer. In the course of his attack conscription Kiefer said: | “The first duty of a drafted ci zen is to appeal to the courts |protection for his const rights. He said it would be possible to force Sempotesy on G many, dg mn j agents into mittee to “go President Wilson ina reply tow erty loan subserip BOY OF 24 HELD” COLUMBUS, 0., May 81. mon Hennacy, 24, wag early today and is held authorities for distributi milltardat | leetetere. WASHINGTON, May 31.—1 ing determined on most of basic changes in the $1,800,000, war tax bill, passed in the the senate finance committee took up the publications tax, Postmaster _ General held a long conference with Sen, Simmons, chairman of the commit- tee, yesterday, and urged a flat in- crease in second-class postage rates to correspond with the im: — creases in first class rates, Burles — son does not believe the how “zone system” of increasing tax * publications ts fair, By United Press Leased Wire NEW YORK, May 31.—Travelers in New York today brought word of the rescue of two Americans tn the crew of the Norwegian bark Dione, sunk May 2, by gun fire from a German submarine. The survi ors were C, H, Edwards, of Norman, Tenn., and H. K. Parker, of Ports- mouth. All of the Dione’s crew were saved. MARKSMEN READY By United Press Leased WATERIAO, Ia. Yay 3L—A regiment of trapshooters, all splen- did marksmen, was suggested at the lowa State Sportsmen's asso+ ciation’s annual meeting here today, 00 mi bers of the association to the sup. and voted $500 to purchase Liberty bonds, PUBLIC INVITED TO FAIR All are invited to attend the fair heing held at St. Edward’s parish’ hall, Hillman City, this week, for the purpose of reducing the chureh debt.